Hold your horses
After reading through this thread it appears that there might not actually be many of you on the Australian base........
Regarding the number of officers whom have already signed the onshore version of COS 08 I highly suspect that they belong to the less senior f/o's on the freighter or DEFO's on the busses.
The rest are probably the ex-ASL freighter crews who have already seen an improvement to their conditions through extension of retirement age from 60 to 65. ( small point but for some of these huys a big one no doubt).
As usual my fears are rapidly becoming a reality.......
We pay for advice from our benevolent fund to the tune of approx 3 months full subs and we will mostv likely get the response our gut was feeling all along....... sign this deal with some attempt to attach a letter recording/registering our duress for signing so we may one day find enough money to go to court if need be to re-instate full BPP to those deserving and the prospect of attaining it for those next in line.
It is hard not to smell a rat in HKG when from the 1st July as we all onshore in Oz, another 30'odd extendees are to be allowed back onto the CPA seniority list thus triggering BPP for those on cos 99 next in line.
The rumours running around HKG regarding housing allowance for expats and BPP for cos 99 are just that..... rumours, but one certain chap in the Basing's office with an ever enlarging bald spot has started aking the odd potential returnee to consider their descision to return as the likes of these two items of cos99 might be a distant dream within a few years.....
Looks like the scare mongering is running at full steam.